mobile phonen.

Brit.

/ˌməʊbʌɪl ˈfəʊn/, U.S.

/ˌmoʊb(ə)l ˈfoʊn/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mobile adj.¹, phone n.²

Etymology: < mobile adj.¹ + phone n.²

Now chiefly British.

Originally: a radio-telephone installed in a vehicle. In later use: a portable wireless telephone that transmits and receives signals via a cellular (cellular adj. 6) network; a cell phone; esp. (in later use) a smartphone.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of

microtelephone1879

field telephone1880

telephone extension1881

pay telephone1886

home telephone1893

substation1897

extension1906

railophone1911

dial phone1917

payphone1919

dial telephone1921

autophone1922

mobile telephone1930

viewphone1932

videophone1944

mobile phone1945

car phone1946

video telephone1947

speaker-phone1955

picture telephone1956

princess phone1959

touchtone telephone1961

touch-tone1962

touchtone phone1963

picture phone1964

Trimphone1965

princess telephone1966

vision-telephone1966

visiophone1971

princess1973

warbler1973

landline1977

cardphone1978

feature phone1979

smartphone1980

mobile1982

cell phone1983

Vodafone1984

cellular1985

mobile device1989

brick1990

satphone1991

celly1992

burner phone1996

keitai1998

burner2002

1945 Wall St. Jrnl. 17 Jan. 6/6 The Bell System has estimated that in the next five or ten years mobile phones will be used by perhaps 10,000 vehicles in New York City.

1975 Brownfield (Texas) News 12 Jan. a4/3 General Telephone Company is..attempting to up fees for mobile phones from $45 a month to approximately $75.

1989 T. Clancy Clear & Present Danger xiii. 255 El jefe thought to call Cortez on his mobile phone, but remembered that his hireling refused to discuss substantive matters over what he called a ‘nonsecure’ line.

1998 Total Football Nov. 64/1 Suddenly a muffled ringer sounds from his pocket as his mobile phone trills to life.

2010 Guardian (Nexis) 11 May 27 Mobile phones using Google's Android operating system have outsold Apple's iPhone in the US for the first time.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive, as mobile phone contract, mobile phone market, mobile phone service, etc.

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1945 Wall St. Jrnl. 17 Jan. 6/5 Bus companies are regarded as logical users of the highway mobile phone service.

1965 Austin (Chicago, Illinois) News 18 Aug. b3/2 Alderman Chew's..mobile phone bill averages $40 monthly.

1978 Pop. Sci. Jan. 63/1 A conventional mobile-phone system uses one high-powered central transmitter and a sensitive receiver serving all mobile units in the area.

1988 Observer 31 July 9/2 The mobile phone industry has been wooing potential customers with all manner of special offers.

1995 Which? Oct. 5/1 In August we warned of the hidden costs in some mobile phone contracts.

1998 Zest Sept. 31/1 Scientists..found that mobile-phone use can cause short-term memory loss and sudden confusion.

2014 Irish Times 27 Sept. 16/3 The iPhone..revolutionized the global mobile phone market.

mobile phone company n.

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1968 Clovis (New Mexico) News-Jrnl. 19 Nov. 14/2 The State Corporation Commission will conduct hearings Wednesday on the applications of two mobile phone companies to operate in New Mexico.

2016 Good Housek. (Nexis) Jan. 202 Mobile phone companies will tell you that lots of people now not only ignore their home phone when it rings, they also have no idea what their own number is.

mobile phone number n. (also mobile phone no.)

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1949 San Benito (Texas) News 21 Mar. 5/2 (advt.) Hey Tire & Supply Co. Our mobile phone No. is ZF5-2369.

2015 M. Scott Into Fire xxv. 269 ‘Where can I find you?’ she asks... He pulls a small card from his inner pocket, [and] scribbles a mobile phone number on it.

C2. Objective, as mobile phone maker, mobile phone owner, mobile phone user, etc.

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1950 Chicago Tribune 7 May i. 36/2 Police to seek aid of mobile phone users... All owners of mobile telephones [will] be urged to report accidents..to the police.

1965 Newsweek 12 July 63/1 There is a pocket of mobile phone owners in New York..but the fad hasn't yet caught on in other cities.

1989 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 June d1/3 The cells that Duracell is trying to persuade a mobile phone manufacturer to incorporate have a lifetime of only about 90 days.

1999 Jerusalem Post 8 Dec. 12/1 Nokia Oyj, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, became Europe's most valuable company..yesterday.

2014 Guardian 11 Aug. (G2 section) 10/1 The eternal irritation of any mobile phone user is the signal blackspot.

C3.

mobile phone charger n. a device for recharging the battery of a mobile phone, esp. one consisting of a cable connected to an adaptor which plugs into an electrical socket.

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1994 Austral. Financial Rev. 10 Aug. 51/4 A robot was creeping towards the bag and was..about 75 seconds away from blowing it—and what under X-ray was a suspicious looking mobile phone charger—to smithereens.

2004 Financial Times 19 Oct. 13/4 What do business travellers most often forget when they rush off on trips? Their mobile phone chargers.

2010 T. J. Higgs Signs from Afterlife vi. 91 I tucked myself up in my bed and plugged my mobile phone charger into the socket next to me.

mobile phone mast n. a mast or tower by which mobile phone signals are transmitted and received.Cf. cell phone tower n. at cell phone n. Compounds 3.

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1990 Sydney Morning Herald 15 Mar. (Northern Herald section) 3/1 O'Keefe says no to mobile phone mast. The Mayor of Mosman..says..plan to erect a cellular mobile telephone base station..will take place ‘over my dead body’.

1999 Financial Times 29 Oct. 14/6 Artificial trees..are Vodafone's solution to the proliferation of unsightly mobile phone masts.

2016 P. Bradley in C. Batty Food, Media & Contemp. Culture i. ii. 38 A telecommunications company..has been given permission to erect a mobile phone mast on the site.

mobile phone network n. a telecommunications network for mobile phones, esp. (in later use) a cellular (cellular adj. 6) phone network; (also) a company operating such a network.

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1972 New Scientist 10 Feb. 328/1 A telephone in every car would be possible with a new mobile 'phone network proposed for the US by..AT & T.

1988 Financial Times 17 Aug. 1/2 [The] Racal Telecommunications Group..includes the mobile phone network Vodafone.

1995 Times of India 6 Sept. (Bombay Times Suppl.) 1/4 There are a couple of..exchanges which are still to be connected to the mobile phone network.

2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 28 Jan. (Business section) 7 Mobile phone manufacturers..are under pressure from mobile phone networks to build more robust devices.

mobile phone operator n. (a) (originally) a person using a switchboard to route calls to and from mobile phones (now rare and historical); (b) (in later use) a company providing access to a cellular mobile phone network and related services.

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1947 Fueloil & Oil Heat Sept. 69/1 They call the mobile phone operator, [and] give the number of the car telephone.

1984 South China Morning Post 25 Nov. 36/4 The Postmaster-General..may have adopted the view that the mobile phone operators should pay only the marginal..costs..incurred as a result of the increased traffic they will generate on the telephone system.

1986 New Braunfels (Texas) Herald-Zeitung 20 Apr. 5/3 Users [of cellular telephone systems] do not have to go through a mobile phone operator, nor is a special line needed.

2015 L. Obijiofor New Technol. in Developing Societies ix. 227 In markets that are serviced by a single mobile phone operator, prices are much higher than in markets in which there are multiple operators.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mobile phone
释义	mobile phonen. Brit. /ˌməʊbʌɪl ˈfəʊn/, U.S. /ˌmoʊb(ə)l ˈfoʊn/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mobile adj.¹, phone n.² Etymology: < mobile adj.¹ + phone n.² Now chiefly British. Originally: a radio-telephone installed in a vehicle. In later use: a portable wireless telephone that transmits and receives signals via a cellular (cellular adj. 6) network; a cell phone; esp. (in later use) a smartphone. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of microtelephone1879 field telephone1880 telephone extension1881 pay telephone1886 home telephone1893 substation1897 extension1906 railophone1911 dial phone1917 payphone1919 dial telephone1921 autophone1922 mobile telephone1930 viewphone1932 videophone1944 mobile phone1945 car phone1946 video telephone1947 speaker-phone1955 picture telephone1956 princess phone1959 touchtone telephone1961 touch-tone1962 touchtone phone1963 picture phone1964 Trimphone1965 princess telephone1966 vision-telephone1966 visiophone1971 princess1973 warbler1973 landline1977 cardphone1978 feature phone1979 smartphone1980 mobile1982 cell phone1983 Vodafone1984 cellular1985 mobile device1989 brick1990 satphone1991 celly1992 burner phone1996 keitai1998 burner2002 1945 Wall St. Jrnl. 17 Jan. 6/6 The Bell System has estimated that in the next five or ten years mobile phones will be used by perhaps 10,000 vehicles in New York City. 1975 Brownfield (Texas) News 12 Jan. a4/3 General Telephone Company is..attempting to up fees for mobile phones from $45 a month to approximately $75. 1989 T. Clancy Clear & Present Danger xiii. 255 El jefe thought to call Cortez on his mobile phone, but remembered that his hireling refused to discuss substantive matters over what he called a ‘nonsecure’ line. 1998 Total Football Nov. 64/1 Suddenly a muffled ringer sounds from his pocket as his mobile phone trills to life. 2010 Guardian (Nexis) 11 May 27 Mobile phones using Google's Android operating system have outsold Apple's iPhone in the US for the first time. Compounds C1. a. General attributive, as mobile phone contract, mobile phone market, mobile phone service, etc. ΚΠ 1945 Wall St. Jrnl. 17 Jan. 6/5 Bus companies are regarded as logical users of the highway mobile phone service. 1965 Austin (Chicago, Illinois) News 18 Aug. b3/2 Alderman Chew's..mobile phone bill averages $40 monthly. 1978 Pop. Sci. Jan. 63/1 A conventional mobile-phone system uses one high-powered central transmitter and a sensitive receiver serving all mobile units in the area. 1988 Observer 31 July 9/2 The mobile phone industry has been wooing potential customers with all manner of special offers. 1995 Which? Oct. 5/1 In August we warned of the hidden costs in some mobile phone contracts. 1998 Zest Sept. 31/1 Scientists..found that mobile-phone use can cause short-term memory loss and sudden confusion. 2014 Irish Times 27 Sept. 16/3 The iPhone..revolutionized the global mobile phone market. b. mobile phone company n. ΚΠ 1968 Clovis (New Mexico) News-Jrnl. 19 Nov. 14/2 The State Corporation Commission will conduct hearings Wednesday on the applications of two mobile phone companies to operate in New Mexico. 2016 Good Housek. (Nexis) Jan. 202 Mobile phone companies will tell you that lots of people now not only ignore their home phone when it rings, they also have no idea what their own number is. mobile phone number n. (also mobile phone no.) ΚΠ 1949 San Benito (Texas) News 21 Mar. 5/2 (advt.) Hey Tire & Supply Co. Our mobile phone No. is ZF5-2369. 2015 M. Scott Into Fire xxv. 269 ‘Where can I find you?’ she asks... He pulls a small card from his inner pocket, [and] scribbles a mobile phone number on it. C2. Objective, as mobile phone maker, mobile phone owner, mobile phone user, etc. ΚΠ 1950 Chicago Tribune 7 May i. 36/2 Police to seek aid of mobile phone users... All owners of mobile telephones [will] be urged to report accidents..to the police. 1965 Newsweek 12 July 63/1 There is a pocket of mobile phone owners in New York..but the fad hasn't yet caught on in other cities. 1989 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 June d1/3 The cells that Duracell is trying to persuade a mobile phone manufacturer to incorporate have a lifetime of only about 90 days. 1999 Jerusalem Post 8 Dec. 12/1 Nokia Oyj, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, became Europe's most valuable company..yesterday. 2014 Guardian 11 Aug. (G2 section) 10/1 The eternal irritation of any mobile phone user is the signal blackspot. C3. mobile phone charger n. a device for recharging the battery of a mobile phone, esp. one consisting of a cable connected to an adaptor which plugs into an electrical socket. ΚΠ 1994 Austral. Financial Rev. 10 Aug. 51/4 A robot was creeping towards the bag and was..about 75 seconds away from blowing it—and what under X-ray was a suspicious looking mobile phone charger—to smithereens. 2004 Financial Times 19 Oct. 13/4 What do business travellers most often forget when they rush off on trips? Their mobile phone chargers. 2010 T. J. Higgs Signs from Afterlife vi. 91 I tucked myself up in my bed and plugged my mobile phone charger into the socket next to me. mobile phone mast n. a mast or tower by which mobile phone signals are transmitted and received.Cf. cell phone tower n. at cell phone n. Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1990 Sydney Morning Herald 15 Mar. (Northern Herald section) 3/1 O'Keefe says no to mobile phone mast. The Mayor of Mosman..says..plan to erect a cellular mobile telephone base station..will take place ‘over my dead body’. 1999 Financial Times 29 Oct. 14/6 Artificial trees..are Vodafone's solution to the proliferation of unsightly mobile phone masts. 2016 P. Bradley in C. Batty Food, Media & Contemp. Culture i. ii. 38 A telecommunications company..has been given permission to erect a mobile phone mast on the site. mobile phone network n. a telecommunications network for mobile phones, esp. (in later use) a cellular (cellular adj. 6) phone network; (also) a company operating such a network. ΚΠ 1972 New Scientist 10 Feb. 328/1 A telephone in every car would be possible with a new mobile 'phone network proposed for the US by..AT & T. 1988 Financial Times 17 Aug. 1/2 [The] Racal Telecommunications Group..includes the mobile phone network Vodafone. 1995 Times of India 6 Sept. (Bombay Times Suppl.) 1/4 There are a couple of..exchanges which are still to be connected to the mobile phone network. 2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 28 Jan. (Business section) 7 Mobile phone manufacturers..are under pressure from mobile phone networks to build more robust devices. mobile phone operator n. (a) (originally) a person using a switchboard to route calls to and from mobile phones (now rare and historical); (b) (in later use) a company providing access to a cellular mobile phone network and related services. ΚΠ 1947 Fueloil & Oil Heat Sept. 69/1 They call the mobile phone operator, [and] give the number of the car telephone. 1984 South China Morning Post 25 Nov. 36/4 The Postmaster-General..may have adopted the view that the mobile phone operators should pay only the marginal..costs..incurred as a result of the increased traffic they will generate on the telephone system. 1986 New Braunfels (Texas) Herald-Zeitung 20 Apr. 5/3 Users [of cellular telephone systems] do not have to go through a mobile phone operator, nor is a special line needed. 2015 L. Obijiofor New Technol. in Developing Societies ix. 227 In markets that are serviced by a single mobile phone operator, prices are much higher than in markets in which there are multiple operators. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1945
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